"This is when Lindsay Lohan was trying to do music. Me and Stargate got the call and I put together a record that I genuinely did not think she was going to be able to pull off," he said. "I had to eat those words because not only did she pull it off. She bodied it. It was really good. They didn't do anything with the record but I heard her version, and she did a good job on it."

Did Ne-Yo Really Give Up "Blurred Lines"?

Non-Fiction/Fiction: This is a little bit of both.

"It wasn't that specific track that I turned down," he explained. "But I remember working with Pharrell and I was trying to find a way to do something that kind of had an EDM feel but was a bit more soulful, so he started playing me tracks that were kind of in the vein of what 'Blurred Lines' became and I initially said it sounded a little too retro. He said, 'I'm telling you, this is the sound that's going to do it.'"